Put oil in a dry pan, after oil is heated, add cumin seeds to the oil. After seeds crackle, add cut garlic cloves in the oil and let it turn golden brown. Now, add sliced onions to the oil and stir it. After onion turns transparent, add green chilli and tomatoes in the oil. Mix it. And add salt, turmeric powder and chilli powder to the mixture in a pan. Cover the lid and let it cook for 10 minutes on low flame. Stir it occasionally.

After 10 minutes, open the lid and check whether the tomato pulp is out or not. If yes, then increase the flame, cover the lid and let it get cooked for another 15 minutes.

Take a mixer jar, add peanut, coconut, salt, cur green chilli and cut garlic cloves, and grind it. The chutney is ready but some people like it after treating it with oil. take some cooking oil in a small pan, heat it, and add some curry leaves and mustard seeds. Now, add this oil to the chutney prepared and mix it properly. The chutney is ready to serve.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Keep on stirring the milk as it has tendency to get sticked in the pan.

After about 15-20 minutes, the milk is reduced, the water content in the milk is evaporated and left with fat.

Stir and keep the pan on flame, till all liquid part is evaporated and only thing left in the pan is a fat.

When this fat, starts turning brown, close the flame.

Your khowa is ready, can be used in any dessert as an ingredient.

Normally, in India Khowa is used to make a Dessert, which is offered to God. So, I didn't give the recipe which includes Milk Powder as some people think Milk Powder contains Salt. Now, I will tell u the recipe with milk Powder, which is much easy and less time taking.

Ingredients -

Milk - 1 1/2 Cup

Milk Powder - 1 Cup

Directions -

Mix the lukewarm Milk with milk powder in a bowl, so that all the lumps are dissolved.

In a bowl take all purpose flour, add oil ( heated and cooled), mix it then add lukewarm water (as reqd.) to make a dough. Dough should be on such that it's not sticking on hand as well as not very hard.

All Purpose flour with Oil

Dough

Mixed All purpose flour w/Oil

Dough in equal parts

Divide the dough in equal small parts. Convert each part in small balls.

Roll each ball by making it a small round tortilla, add the khowa mixture and close the tortilla by making a half circle.

Rolled ball

Khowa added in a roll

Pressed from all sides

Press from all sides, mould it from the sides, making no place for khowa to escape.

Twisted to lock from all sides

After all balls are filled, These small stuffed tortillas are called Gujia.

twisted gujias

Fried Gujias

Take Oil in a pan, heat it and add gujia in a oil and fry it till it turns brown.

Add onions, then all vegetables,stir it, reduce the flame to low and close the lid to get vegetables get cooked for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, open the lid, add salt, turmeric powder and tomatoes.

Mix it properly, again close the lid for another 10 minutes.

Vegetables are cooked by this time, add a handful of peanuts and make sure it's spread all over the vegetables.

In the end, increase the flame of burner, add rice flakes( poha), to the vegetables, mix it properly so that all vegetables are mixed up with the rice flakes. By this time, the rice flakes, will turn yellow in color.

Add Cauliflower in this mixture and mix it thoroughly, so that each flower is covered with sauce.

Take a pan and transfer the content to the pan and start the flame.

Add a spoon of Olive oil in it.

Put the flame on low, add a cup of water and cover the lid, le it get cooked for another 15 minutes.

Check it after 15 minutes and make sure the cauliflower is cooked. By this time, all the gravy should stick to the cauliflower. If that is not the case, increase the flame to max. and keep on stirring so that cauliflower is not sticked to the pan.